NAT's CRAiLAR to be blended with Tencel from Lenzing
11 May '12
4 min read
• Prominently feature TENCEL, Lenzing Modal and CRAiLAR's industry-leading sustainability platforms
• Leverage each company's water absorption and wicking properties to create an alternative existing fiber material used in athletic and sport performance
• Create a blended yarn using CRAiLAR, along with Lenzing's cellulosic fibers, which can be introduced to the women's fashion market, where Lenzing has long been a leader with a strong presence
NAT today supplies its CRAiLAR Flax to HanesBrands, Georgia-Pacific, and Brilliant Global Knitwear for commercial use, and to Levi Strauss & Co., Cintas, Carhartt, Ashland, Westex, Target and PVH Corp for evaluation and development. NAT is in construction on its first full-scale production facility in Pamplico, South Carolina, and anticipates it will be delivering fiber from the facility in Q3 2012. It will partner with Tintoria Piana and Barnhardt Manufacturing on the processing of that fiber. The Company's current fiber is being produced at its pilot facility in nearby Kingstree, South Carolina.
The Lenzing Group is a world leader in marketing and manufacturing man-made cellulose fibers.
Naturally Advanced Technologies Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, CRAiLAR Fiber Technologies Inc., has developed proprietary technologies for production of bast fibers, cellulose pulp, and their resulting by-products in collaboration with Canada's National Research Council.
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